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Side question: how/why did classical /ue/ become a falling diphthong? AFAIK, where uV diphthongs are preserved in natural romlangs they're all rising... On 10/22/07, Christian Thalmann <cinga@hidden.email> wrote: > --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Scotto Hlad" <scott.hlad@...> wrote: > > > > Regimonti's vocabulary is linked much closer to "classical" Latin. > > [unlurk] > > Boy and girl being such common words, Jovian has strayed a bit > from its otherwise rather faithful adherence to its classical > roots. > > The standard word for boy is puobe [pu@b] < PUBES + Gmc "Bub", > with the archaic puore [pu@r] surviving only in Church songs > and the like. > > The commonly used word for girl is maedel ['majd@l] < Gmc > "Mädel", which is not exclusively applied to children, though. > In informal usage, it can refer to females throughout the > sexual age as well, just like English "girl". Unlike puore, > the word puela [py@l] is still in active use today and refers > to female children exclusively. > > [relurk] > > > -- Christian Thalmann > > -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@hidden.email>